Revealed in a Whitehall report social services are being forced to restrict home assistance, because of the UK government’s decision to spend into saving failed banks and institutions the most vulnerable and weakest will be first to suffer, only the most sick and disabled will have the right to have help with washing, cleaning, shopping, and free meals. Councils find it easier to make savings by cutting services for the elderly and are more worried about antagonising powerful public sector unions. This means 600,000 elderly will have lost their right to free home help since 2006. Depriving the elderly of help to live in their own homes forcing them for the need to move into residential care homes, many of which are closing, or are substandard, it is a national disgrace. Next spring only 14 percent of local authorities will give help at the moderate level and 81 percent to those with substantial needs, it is disgusting and an abomination that the government have done little, or nothing to help vulnerable elderly people. A government green paper on care for the aged and frail proposed new taxes on retirees to meet the cost.
Please read The Daily Mail’s Dignity for the elderly
http://www.yourcarehome.co.uk/news.asp?idno=535
Meanwhile who shoulders this burden? It is the thousands of unpaid carers at home who are caring for partners or family members out of love, thousands of carers who are elderly and ill themselves. When are the government going to address the fact these elderly carers not only need recognition and thanks but the means to live.
http://www.carers-healingspur.co.uk/
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